Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.
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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.
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A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
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I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.
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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.
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The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must free ourselves from our tendency to see cities as their buildings, and remember that the real city is made of flesh, not concrete.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
